What lost the king his regal power?
The want of patience for an hour:
And who for Christ refuse to stay,
With patience cast their souls away,
The cross they hastily lay down,
And forfeit an immortal crown.
What lost the king his regal power
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Now would the Lord have established thy kingdom forever: but now thy kingdom shall not continue.”—[I. Sam.] xiii. 13, 14. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 158.
Publishing: Public Domain